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If you scale up customers, you scale up support. If you don't want to serve new customers, tell them to take their business elsewhere. But if you want to be a big boy, you need to play like you are one.


> you scale up support

you'd end up with a call center larger than most cities. It's not feasible.


If your maximum addressable market is “the whole economy,” as seen in SpaceX filings, then a city-sized call centre (distributed, of course) really is ‘t that much of an ask.


If you think you hit a limit where you can't support any new customer anymore, you just tell them you have no capacity at the moment. Like any normal practice does.


What's the support staff required for a few billion people?


Their problem, not ours.


And yet, building city-sized datacenters is somehow totally doable.


But how else can they get an edge over any possible competition so that they can grow faster? Quarterly reports are coming faster and faster!




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